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Monday, April 25, 2016

FINALS UPDATE: The return of Game of Thrones dominated Sunday night with a 3.98 A18-49 rating. It's the first ever down year-to-year Thrones premiere, but the decline was a very healthy 5% from last year's 4.19 opener. Leading out were comedies Silicon Valley (1.04, down 17% y2y) and Veep (0.52, down 5%).

Competing with GoT head-to-head for the first time was AMC's Fear the Walking Dead (2.12), which took another double-digit hit.

NBC's Little Big Shots has a pretty short order, so it threw in a pre-sweeps repeat in the 8:00 hour (1.1) on this Sunday. That was bad news for the lead-out comedies The Carmichael Show (0.7) and Crowded (0.7), which both plummeted into new low territory. This helps to illustrate that these shows aren't really that different from each other, and neither one has any real strength.

On Fox, The Last Man on Earth (0.9) and a repeat of Family Guy (1.0) both took a hit in the 9:00 hour, as the M18-34 competition presumably ramped up big-time with the return of Game of Thrones on HBO. At 8:00, The Simpsons (1.2) and Bob's Burgers (1.1) were much steadier, matching two weeks ago when Simpsons was last original.

Simpsons got a slight lead-in improvement from a Simpsons repeat (0.6) replacing Cooper Barrett's Guide at 7:30... but Bordertown (0.4) remained a drag on the night at 7:00.

ABC was even across the drama board with Once Upon a Time (1.2), The Family (0.8) and Quantico (1.0), while America's Funniest Home Videos (1.2) got a boost at 7:00 (perhaps from the afternoon NBA playoff game).

And on CBS, Madam Secretary (1.0) inched up from last week's low, but Elementary (0.7) did not. In the middle was The Good Wife, posting another 1.0 as it's now two weeks from the series finale.

FULL TABLE:

Name

A18-49

Skew

Last

Lastn

LeLa

wy2y

TLa

Ty2y

True

Last

America's Funniest Home Videos

1.2

30%

+33%

+0.3

-14%

+20%

-14%

1.35

+0.35

Once Upon a Time

1.2

40%

0%

0.0

+0.2

-29%

0%

-29%

1.22

-0.15

The Family

0.8

35%

0%

0.0

0.0

0%

-47%

0.77

-0.05

Quantico

1.0

37%

0%

0.0

0.0

0%

0%

1.12

-0.10

ABC:

+5%

-25%

60 Minutes

1.0

13%

0%

0.0

-17%

0%

-17%

1.16

-0.09

Madam Secretary

1.0

13%

+11%

+0.1

0.0

+11%

-72%

0.99

-0.00

The Good Wife

1.0

15%

0%

0.0

+0.1

0%

-72%

0.96

-0.06

Elementary

0.7

17%

0%

0.0

0.0

-50%

0%

-81%

0.80

-0.10

CBS:

+3%

-69%

Little Big Shots (R)

0.7

20%

-13%

-13%

0.88

Little Big Shots (R)

1.1

20%

-35%

+83%

1.14

The Carmichael Show

0.7

17%

-36%

-0.4

-0.9

-36%

-42%

0.69

-0.20

Crowded

0.7

20%

-22%

-0.2

-0.4

-22%

-42%

0.78

-0.11

Dateline Sun

0.9

27%

-25%

-0.3

-0.2

+12%

-25%

+80%

1.06

-0.33

NBC:

-28%

+10%

Bordertown

0.4

44%

-20%

-0.1

-20%

-43%

0.72

-0.21

The Simpsons (R)

0.6

56%

+50%

-25%

0.84

The Simpsons

1.2

55%

0%

0.0

+0.1

-14%

+33%

-14%

1.37

-0.05

Bob's Burgers

1.1

60%

+10%

+0.1

+0.3

+10%

+22%

1.10

-0.03

Family Guy (R)

1.0

58%

-29%

-41%

1.00

The Last Man on Earth

0.9

54%

-18%

-0.2

-0.4

-36%

-18%

-36%

0.93

-0.15

Fox:

-2%

-25%

All:

-7%

-42%

The full table can be sorted by clicking any of the category names at the top. Hover over 'Last', 'y2y' and timeslot numbers for more information on the previous episode(s) being compared.